Republican Congressman Devin Nunes of Visalia has summed up the obvious problem presented by California’s tax, spending, and regulatory policy: “(o)ur excessive tax and regulatory burden is killing businesses and driving them to other states.” People have two ways to vote: at the ballot box, and with their feet. At the last November ballot, Californians accepted the invitation of liberal Democrats and enacted the largest state income tax in the country. The result today is 1,700,000 unemployed residents, twice as many unemployed as five years ago. And the liberal Democrats and their special interest allies in control of the state have managed to add even more to the average Californian’s tax burden, enacting in the meantime the highest tax on gasoline at the pump. They are moving forward dozens more of tax increase bills in the Legislature. No wonder so many businesses and high-income individuals are fleeing the state. They are voting with their feet between elections.… Read More

Yesterday I wrote about the hypocrisy of liberal Democrats who speak about gender equality and breaking the glass ceiling. Apparently, the supposed party of tolerance, diversity, and equality only applies if you’re a Democratic male.

For the Speaker, if you’re a successful Latino in your field and he disagrees with your point of you, he will not tolerate even sitting on the same panel.

This weekend the National Association of Hispanic Journalists met in Anaheim for their Excellence in Journalism 2013 conference. Their association’s mission states dedication to fostering and promoting a fair treatment of Hispanics by the media. Their conference took an unexpected turn of events when Speaker John Perez demanded that political strategist Hector Barajas’ voice be silent and demanded the National Hispanic Journalist Association remove him from a Latino Vote panel where Hector had been invited to speak and represent the GOP voice. The journalist association shamelessly agreed to the Speaker’s demand.

The… Read More

Although professional polling has clearly shown voters want to vote – especially when politicians want to spend hundreds of millions of dollars on subsidies and economic stimulus.

CLICK HERE to complete the short survey and share your view!

http://www.surveymonkey.com/s/62VY526… Read More

First I will correct the misrepresentation that support for a public vote and a better accounting of hundreds of millions of public dollars is somehow opposing Sacramento or an Arena. It is not.

To start, we need to understand what taxpayers are being asked to subsidize. The subsidy proponent’s talking points characterize the NBA arena as a job-creating economic engine … a phrase that polls well, but is just not true.

The evidence, the data – the science – overwhelmingly tells us arenas don’t create the jobs promised and don’t create an economic boom.

Humphries & Coats, Baade,… Read More

Promoters of the California bullet train are behaving like a salesman who gets his foot in the door and won’t take “no” for an answer.

It was 2008 when voters approved $10 billion in bonds to kick start a high speed rail (HSR) building program.But they were promised a system whose total cost would be $45 billion, that additional money would be secured from sources including private investment and that the system would meet environmental concerns.

An expert study sponsored by the Reason Foundation and the Howard Jarvis Taxpayers Foundation showed the actual cost for this extravagant plan would approach $100 billion or more. “There are no genuine financial projections that indicate there will be sufficient funds,” the authors wrote.… Read More

The human race consists of both male and female. It was designed that way for our good, and the good of humanity itself. The two genders complement each other. The sexual complementarity of men and women is the only union that can produce children. Children, in turn, benefit greatly when their lives are enriched with the unique contributions provided by both genders.

Despite the natural order that gives us male and female genders, there are children who experience confusion about their gender, expressing strong feelings identifying with the gender that is opposite that of their birth. Those children are entitled to love and support, and should be protected from discrimination and bullying in school. Indeed, California already has laws to protect those children by prohibiting discrimination and bullying based on gender, gender identity, sexual orientation, and gender non-conforming appearance and behavior.

AB 1266 is not really about protecting transgendered students, since we already have laws on the books to do that. Rather, its purpose is to advance an adult political agenda by special interests who wish to use our public schools as a tool to strip gender and… Read More

Over at the Pacific Research Institute’s CalWatchDog website FlashReport’s Senior Editor, John Hrabe has published an eye-opening column, CA Assembly Pays Women Less; Fewer In Top Staff Positions.

After spending a vast amount of time pulling, sorting and analyzing data from public records of the California legislature, Hrabe has discovered, in essence, that the Emperor has No Clothes. While the liberal Democrats who run the State Assembly spend their time issuing platitudes on the top of gender equality and “breaking the glass ceiling” — it turns out that if you are a woman, your path to the top jobs and the higher salaries is a tougher one than you would have expected.

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by Barry Jantz

Is Friday’s City of San Diego agreement with Bob Filner a good deal for taxpayers?

Maybe we can start by agreeing on something. It really chaps the common hide to think the city would enter into any settlement whatsoever with the soon-to-be former but already disgraced mayor. If it were up to a lot of people, the guy would be left penniless or behind bars.

Yet, for anyone to believe there would be no cost to the city from Filnergate … well, that’s simply not realistic. Theday Gloria Allred and Irene McCormack Jackson held their press conferenceit was fairly clear the city would be on the hook for something, maybe a significant amount. A government agency is partly liable for its employees, including its elected officials, even when they are loose cannons and have loose fingers.

With that said,the deal brokered by retired Judge Lawrence Irving— with significant crafting, negotiating and ushering by City Attorney Jan… Read More